Indigenous Peoples and Conservation Organizations

Contributors
JOHN BUTLER holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology
from the University of Florida. He has worked
for more than 16 years in community-based natural
resource management in Latin America, and
specialized in the Amazon Basin with a particular
focus on indigenous communities. Since 1990,
he has worked with the WWF-Latin America
program in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and
Chile. While based in Brazil, he worked to
develop natural resource management projects
with several indigenous communities in the
Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado.
LAURA R. GRAHAM is associate professor in
the Department of Anthropology of the
University of Iowa. Her extensive fieldwork
since 1981 in the community of Etéñiritipa,
Brazil, formed the basis for numerous articles
and the book Performing Dreams: Discourses of
Immortality among the Xavante.
DOMINIQUE IRVINE is consulting assistant
professor in Anthropological Sciences at Stanford
University. She holds a master’s degree in
forestry and environmental studies from Yale
University and a Ph.D. in ecological anthropology
from Stanford University. During the past
20 years she has worked with various indigenous
federations in Ecuador’s Napo Province on issues
of land rights, organizational strengthening,
resource management, and marketing. She collaborated
with FCUNAE on a postdoctoral fellowship
from the Smithsonian Institution, and
later with FOIN when she was Indigenous
Resource Management Program director with
Cultural Survival from 1989 to 1995. She
worked as an advisor to the PUMAREN Project
from its inception.
PATTY LARSON was with the World Wildlife
Fund’s People and Conservation Program from
1991 to 1998 and coordinated the indigenous peoples
initiative. Now an independent consultant on
sustainable development and environment issues,
she holds a master’s degree in international affairs
from American University in Washington, D.C.
JOE REGIS is the community outreach program
coordinator of the Kikori Integrated Conservation
and Development Project. He holds a master’s
degree in personnel management, industrial relations,
and labour welfare from Loyola College,
Madras University, India, and has worked as a
community development trainer and promoter
with NGOs and church groups in various parts of
Asia and Europe during the past 15 years.
WENDY R. TOWNSEND holds a Ph.D. in forest
resources and conservation, with a major in
wildlife management and a minor in anthropology,
from the University of Florida. She is coordinator
of CIDOB’s Indigenous Management
Research Project in Bolivia.